Is Empirical Health a replacement for your primary care doctor?

Empirical Health is itself a physician-led primary-care practice, with video visits included in the $190-$399 price. Superpower complements your primary-care doctor rather than replacing one, with on-demand care-team messaging about your results.

Who should choose Empirical Health over Superpower?

People who mainly want an ongoing physician-led primary-care relationship and continuous Apple Watch monitoring focused on heart health. Most people who want broad testing plus a protocol and marketplace lean Superpower.

Can I use an HSA/FSA for Superpower?

Yes. Superpower is HSA/FSA eligible, and so is Empirical Health, so you can put pre-tax funds toward either one.

Is Superpower worth it?

For most people, yes, especially if you want a whole-body baseline you can act on. Superpower reports that 93% of members found their action plan more useful, even life-changing, than a standard annual physical. The payoff is acting on a whole-body baseline, not just owning the numbers.

Superpower vs Empirical Health: Features & Pricing (2026)

Key takeaway:

Empirical Health pairs a $190-$399 program sold around heart health with an ongoing physician-led primary-care relationship: video visits, prescriptions, and continuous Apple Watch monitoring, included in that price. However, if you're looking for broader whole-body testing bundled with a protocol and a supplement and prescription marketplace in one membership, Superpower is $349 a year and pairs 150+ health metrics across an initial draw and a built-in follow-up draw with a personalized action plan — and 36.3% of Superpower members reduced their biological age score between their first and second year.

What is Superpower, and what is Empirical Health?

Superpower and Empirical Health are both biomarker testing companies. A biomarker testing company offers blood-based testing on a membership basis, measuring your biomarkers at set intervals. Biomarkers are measurable signals in your blood: things like cholesterol, blood sugar, and inflammation.

Two questions separate these services: how much do they measure, and what do they help you do next? It's worth noting the two answer differently.

Empirical extends into ongoing primary care. Superpower extends into a protocol plus a supplement and prescription marketplace.

What does Superpower include?

Superpower follows a simple path:

Join for $349 a year.
Give an initial blood draw at a lab, or at home for an added fee.
Receive ~90 health metrics in your dashboard.
Take a built-in follow-up draw later in the year, retesting ~60 biomarkers.
Get a personalized action plan.
Message your care team on demand.

Testing reaches 2,000+ partner locations across 40+ states. Results arrive in 5-10 business days. You can shop a supplement marketplace with member-exclusive pricing, and prescriptions are available through the marketplace, when clinically appropriate, priced separately.

Your results include a biological-age score, included in every membership. It's a single number for your whole body, so an optional OrganAge add-on breaks it into nine organ-level scores, across systems like metabolism, inflammation, liver, and kidney health, showing you which ones are pulling the total up or down.

Gut microbiome testing is a separate add-on, for members who want a read on gut health alongside their blood work.

What does Empirical Health include?

Empirical Health is a physician-led primary-care practice, not just a testing company.

	Superpower	Empirical Health
Action plan basis	—	AI-generated, physician-reviewed
Wearable integration	Connect your wearables to your dashboard	Continuous Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Samsung data (ECG, HRV, sleep) feeding care plans
Results turnaround	5-10 business days	3-5 business days

What biomarkers do the Superpower and Empirical Health memberships measure in 2026?

Superpower's initial draw runs ~90 biomarkers, with 150+ tests total once its built-in retest of ~60 of them is folded in. Empirical Health publishes 100+ biomarkers on its $190 panel; its $399 program adds repeat testing at 3 and 9 months. The two count on different bases: Superpower's headline is tests returned across two draws, while Empirical's is the markers on a single panel.

Headline count — Superpower: 150+ biomarkers*; Empirical Health: 100+ biomarkers
Counted from — Superpower: An initial ~90 biomarker draw plus a built-in follow-up draw retesting ~60 of the same markers; Empirical Health: One panel (the $399 program adds repeat testing at 3 and 9 months)
Focus — Superpower: Whole-body; Empirical Health: Sold as a heart health program (its published marker list spans more than heart panels)

*Superpower's 150+ combines direct lab measurements with calculated ratios like LMR, MLR, and Ferritin:Albumin.

What support and next steps do Superpower and Empirical Health offer?

Superpower includes on-demand access to a care team you can message about your results, plus a curated supplement marketplace, with prescriptions available through the marketplace when clinically appropriate and priced separately, all in one membership. This is where the two diverge most.

Empirical works differently. Its strength is an ongoing physician relationship included in the price: video visits, referrals, and prescriptions through the practice.

Superpower complements your primary-care doctor rather than replacing one. The trade-off is real: a doctor relationship versus a testing-to-action loop under one roof. What a broad baseline adds alongside either is reach: 60% of members said Superpower identified something previously missed or overlooked by a doctor.

What are the official 2026 membership prices for Superpower and Empirical Health?

Superpower costs $349 a year, billed as a recurring membership.

Superpower: $349 a year covers the initial draw and the built-in follow-up draw, and the membership is HSA/FSA eligible.
Empirical Health: a $190 one-time panel, or a $399-a-year 12-month heart health program that bundles custom repeat testing at 3 and 9 months; both are HSA/FSA eligible.

The honest read: Empirical's $190 panel is a single snapshot, its $399 program is a year of built-in heart-health retesting, and Superpower's $349 membership is a whole-body annual baseline with a built-in retest of its own — the choice comes down to what you want measured, how often, and what's bundled around it.

Who is Superpower best for, and who is Empirical Health best for?

Superpower is best for:

People who want a whole-body baseline rather than a heart-health program.
People who want a protocol plus supplements and Rx at member-exclusive pricing in one membership.
People who want gut-microbiome or OrganAge add-ons.
People optimizing health alongside their existing doctor.

Empirical Health is best for:

People who want an ongoing, physician-led primary-care relationship.
People whose main focus is cardiovascular risk.
People who want continuous Apple Watch monitoring reviewed by a doctor.

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The final word: does Superpower or Empirical Health fit you?

At different price structures — Superpower's $349 annual membership against Empirical's $190-$399 program — both give a serious baseline. Empirical Health is a genuine physician-led primary-care relationship with Apple Watch monitoring, a real strength if you want an ongoing doctor built into the price.

Superpower's panel spans 150+ whole-body metrics across an initial draw and a built-in follow-up draw, while Empirical Health, including its $399 annual program, is marketed around heart health. Empirical's physician care is included in the $190-$399 price; Superpower's protocol, on-demand care, and marketplace are bundled into the one flat $349-a-year fee. The choice comes down to what you want your baseline to cover: a program sold around your heart, or a broader whole-body baseline you act on yourself.

Superpower: broader whole-body testing bundled with a protocol and marketplace

Empirical sells the relationship: a physician you can see, message, and get prescriptions from, included in the $190-$399 price, with its testing sold as a heart health program. Acting on what it finds happens elsewhere. Superpower sells what comes after the result. One $349-a-year membership folds in a 150+ metric whole-body baseline across two draws, a personalized action plan, on-demand care-team messaging, a member-priced supplement marketplace, and prescription access (GLP-1, TRT, when clinically appropriate) — so the supplement you're told to take and the prescription you're told to fill are in the same place as the number that prompted them.

Starting your own health journey means seeing the full picture before deciding what to act on next. Build your baseline with a Superpower membership and take it from there.

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Frequently asked questions

The two aren't directly comparable. Superpower is $349 a year, all in, as a recurring membership. Empirical Health's core panel is a $190 one-time purchase, or $399 a year for its 12-month heart health program with built-in retesting — either way, physician care is included in that price, not billed on top. Superpower's one membership already bundles a whole-body panel with a protocol, marketplace, and prescription access.

Superpower's initial draw covers ~90 health metrics (direct lab measurements plus calculated metrics), and a built-in follow-up draw later in the year retests ~60 of those same markers, for 150+ tests combined across the two. Empirical Health publishes 100+ biomarkers on its $190 panel; its $399 12-month program adds repeat testing at 3 and 9 months. The two count on different bases — Superpower's headline is tests returned across two draws, Empirical's is the markers on one panel — so the like-for-like comparison is ~90 against 100+ on a single draw. What separates them is less the count than what sits around it: Superpower's baseline spans the whole body and arrives with a protocol, a member-priced supplement marketplace, and prescription access in the same membership.